BioMed Central article on Semantic Web and biomedicine
What got me thinking all over again about the Semantic Web and how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to the flow of knowledge was a brief series of m...
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We’re moving into an oral culture on so many levels
We’re rapidly approaching an oral culture. The fluidity of the Web seems to have many aspects of an oral culture in terms of how we can interact with so m...
Craig Venter giving a Long Now seminar today (25feb08)
Dang, I was not able to finagle a trip to SFO to see this talk. But, if you live in the Bay Area, don’t miss this! Link: Long Now Seminars Craig Venter is...
Another great Long Now seminar: Juan Enriquez “Mapping Life”
Saying that the Long Now seminars are great is starting to feel repetitive. So, please go out and listen to ALL of them. I’ve caught up with all the semin...
Something about the Clock of the Long Now chimes
The Clock of the Long Now will have chimes that play 10 tones, in unique combination, every day over the course of 10,000 years. I tend to listen to a bunch of ...
Data does not equal knowledge
At LIFT 08 last week, François Grey gave a great talk about the intersection of grid computing, crowdsourcing, and science. One thing that miffed me was when he...
Alex Wright and the history of information systems over the past few billion years
I got through another amazing Long New Seminar (long dog walks are great for that). This one was by Alex Wright, author of ‘Glut: Mastering Information Th...
Venter’s team takes the next step toward custom-built organisms
The biology maverick, Craig Venter, has rapidly taken the next step in creating custom organisms (link below to news article). Recently, his team managed to tes...
It’s not infoglut on my mind, but infoswim (or something like that)
After a deep conversation with my dad on semantic web stuff, he pointed me to a site (of some guys he works with) that had this quote (below, pulled from anothe...
The future of zoos
Society has come a long way in animal welfare. But we still are caught trying to balance the needs of humanity and the needs of the animal. Zoos are one example...